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surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Addison Gardiner Addison Gardiner (March 19, 1797 – June 5, 1883) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Lieutenant governor of New York from 1845 to 1847 and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1854 to 1855. Early life and career ...

(1797–1883), New York Lieutenant Governor and Chief Judge *

Ainsley Gardiner Ainsley Amohaere Gardiner is a film producer from New Zealand. She is of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Awa descent. Early life Gardiner was born in Palmerston North and grew up in the Wellington suburb of Wadestown, attend ...

, film producer from New Zealand * Sir

Alan Gardiner Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner, (29 March 1879 – 19 December 1963) was an English Egyptologist, linguist, philologist, and independent scholar. He is regarded as one of the premier Egyptologists of the early and mid-20th century. Personal life G ...

(1879–1963), English Egyptologist *

Albert Gardiner Albert "Jupp" Gardiner (30 July 1867 – 14 August 1952) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for New South Wales from 1910 to 1926 and again briefly in 1928. A member of the Labor Party, he served in cabinet as Vice-President ...

, Australian politician *

Alfred George Gardiner Alfred George Gardiner (2 June 1865 – 3 March 1946) was an English journalist, editor and author. His essays, written under the alias "Alpha of the Plough", are highly regarded. He was also Chairman of the National Anti-Sweating League, an ad ...

(1865–1946), English journalist and essayist *

Allen Francis Gardiner Allen Francis Gardiner (1794–1851) was a British Royal Navy officer and missionary to Patagonia. Biography Gardiner was the fifth son of Samuel Gardiner of Coombe Lodge, Oxfordshire, by Mary, daughter of Charles Boddam of Capel House, Bull's ...

(1794–1851), English missionary *

Anthony W. Gardiner Anthony William Gardiner (January 24, 1820 – 1885) served as the ninth president of Liberia from 1878 until 1883. He was the first of a series of True Whig presidents who held power uninterruptedly until 1980. Early years Gardiner was born in ...

(1820–1885), President of Liberia * Antoinette Avril Gardiner (born 1941), known as

Princess Muna al-Hussein Princess Muna Al-Hussein ( ar, منى الحسين, born Toni Avril Gardiner; 25 April 1941) is the mother of Abdullah II of Jordan. She was the second wife of King Hussein; the couple divorced on 21 December 1972. She is British by birth, and c ...

, second wife of King Hussein of Jordan *

Asa Bird Gardiner Asa Bird Gardiner (September 30, 1839 – May 24, 1919) was a controversial American soldier, attorney, and district attorney for New York County (a.k.a. the Borough of Manhattan) from 1898 to 1900. He received the Medal of Honor for his service ...

(1839–1919), American lawyer and politician *

Barry Gardiner Barry Strachan Gardiner (born 10 March 1957) is a British politician who served as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade from 2016 to 2020. A member of the Labour Party, he ...

(born 1957), Scottish politician *

Bernard Gardiner Bernard Gardiner (baptised 25 September 1668 – 22 April 1726) was an academic at the University of Oxford, serving as Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and also as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Life Gardiner was the son of Sir Wil ...

(c. 1668–1726), English academic administrator *

Boris Gardiner Boris Gardiner (born 13 January 1943) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter and bass guitarist. He was a member of several groups during the 1960s before recording as a solo artist and having hit singles with " Elizabethan Reggae" (in 1970), " I Wann ...

(born 1943), Jamaican reggae musician *

Charlie Gardiner (ice hockey player) Charles Robert Gardiner (December 31, 1904 – June 13, 1934) was a Scottish-born Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Gardiner moved with hi ...

(1904–1934), Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player *

Charles Gardiner Charles Gardiner (21 February 1720 – 20 November 1769) was an Irish landowner and politician. He was the son of Luke Gardiner and his wife Anne, daughter of Alexander Stewart and granddaughter of William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy. He was ...

(1720–1769), Irish politician and landowner *

Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...

(1782–1829), socialite *

Chittampalam Abraham Gardiner Sir Chittampalam Abraham Gardiner (6 January 1899 – December 1960) was a Ceylon Tamil businessman and member of the Senate of Ceylon. Early life and family Gardiner was born on 6 January 1899. He was the son of Samuel Vairamuttu Gardiner a ...

, Sri Lankan businessman and prominent Roman Catholic activist *

Chris Gardiner Christopher Gardiner (born 5 January 1986 in Bellshill) is a Scottish football striker. Gardiner began his career with Heart of Midlothian, but failed to make an appearance for the first team. He had a 6-month loan spell with Clyde in 2005.< ...

(born 1986), Scottish footballer *

Crispin Gardiner Crispin William Gardiner (born 18 October 1942 in Hastings New Zealand) is a New Zealand physicist, who has worked in the fields of Quantum Optics, Ultracold Atoms and Stochastic Processes. He has written about 120 journal articles and several ...

(born 1942), New Zealand physicist *

Darcy Gardiner Darcy Gardiner (born 22 September 1995) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). Recruited from the Queenscliff Coutas, Gardiner was drafted by the Lions with their second sele ...

(born 1995), Australian rules footballer * David Gardiner (footballer) (born 1957), Guatemalan footballer *

Frank Gardiner Frank Gardiner (1830 – c. 1882) was an Australian bushranger who gained infamy for his lead role in the a robbery of a gold escort at Eugowra, New South Wales in June 1862. It is considered the largest gold heist in Australian history. Gard ...

, Scottish-born Australian bushranger *

Fred Gardiner Frederick Goldwin Gardiner, (January 21, 1895 – August 21, 1983) was a Canadian politician, lawyer and businessman. He was the first chairman of Metropolitan Toronto council, the governing body for the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, f ...

, Toronto politician * Sir

George Gardiner (politician) Sir George Arthur Gardiner (3 March 1935 – 16 November 2002) was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Reigate from 1974 to 1997. Two months before the 1997 general electio ...

(1935–2002), English politician * George Barnet Gardiner (1852-1910), folk-song collector in England and Scotland *

George Gardiner (settler) George Gardiner (1608/1615 - c. 1677), sometimes spelled Gardner, was an early inhabitant of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and one of the original settlers of Aquidneck Island. He held some minor offices wi ...

(c 1610) of Rhode Island * George Gardiner (soldier) (1821–1891), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross *

Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner Gerald Austin Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, (30 May 1900 – 7 January 1990) was a British Labour politician, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1964 to 1970 and during that time he introduced into British law as many reforms ...

(1900–1990), Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom *

Harry Gardiner Harry H. Gardiner (1871 – perhaps 1933), better known as the Human Fly, was an American man famous for climbing buildings. He began climbing in 1905, and successfully climbed over 700 buildings in Europe and North America, usually wearing or ...

(born 1871), American buildings climber *

Harry Gardiner (footballer) Henry Gardiner (1868 – 1922) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which c ...

, Scottish footballer *

Henry Balfour Gardiner Henry Balfour Gardiner (7 November 1877 – 28 June 1950) was a British musician, composer, and teacher. He was born at Kensington (London), began to play at the age of 5 and to compose at 9. Between his conventional education at Charterhouse ...

(1877–1950), English composer *

Herb Gardiner Herbert Martin Gardiner (May 8, 1891 – January 11, 1972) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) and the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks of the Na ...

(1891–1972), Canadian ice hockey player * Ian Gardiner (disambiguation), several people * Jake Gardiner, Canadian hockey player *

James Gardiner (British Army officer) Colonel James Gardiner (11 January 168821 September 1745) was a Scottish soldier who fought in the British Army, including during the 1745 Jacobite rising, in which he was killed at the Battle of Prestonpans. Life Gardiner was born at Carrid ...

(1688–1745), Scottish soldier *

James Garfield Gardiner James Garfield Gardiner (30 November 1883 – 12 January 1962) was a Canadian farmer, educator, and politician. He served as the fourth premier of Saskatchewan, and as a minister in the Canadian Cabinet. Political career Gardiner was first elec ...

(1883–1962), Canadian politician *

James Henry Gardiner James Henry Gardiner (1848 – 9 December 1921) was an early Australian rules football administrator, footballer and public servant. He is primarily known for the pivotal role he played in establishing the North Melbourne Football Club, which no ...

, early Australian Rules Footballer *

James McDonald Gardiner James McDonald Gardiner (May 22, 1857 – November 25, 1925) was an American architect, lay Anglican church missionary and educator who lived and worked in Japan during the Meiji period. Early life and education Born May 22, 1857 in St. Louis, M ...

, (1857–1925), American architect, educator and lay missionary to Japan *

James Terry Gardiner James Terry Gardiner (May 6, 1842 – September 10, 1912) was an American surveyor and engineer. Biography Gardiner was born in Troy, New York, the son of Daniel Gardiner and Ann Terry Gardiner. He briefly attended Rensselaer Polytechnic In ...

(1842–1912), American surveyor *

Jane Gardiner Jane Arden Gardiner (1758–1840) was a British schoolmistress and grammarian, and one of the earliest friends of Mary Wollstonecraft. Early life Gardiner was the daughter of John Arden, a scholar and lecturer, who is best known as one of Mary ...

, schoolmistress, grammarian *

John Gardiner (Australia) John Gardiner (9 September 1798 – 16 November 1878) was a banker and Pastoralism, pastoralist in the early part of British settlement of Melbourne and Australia. In 1836, he established a settlement near the junction of the Yarra River and Kooy ...

(1873–1878), Irish-born settler in Australia * Sir

John Eliot Gardiner Sir John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Life and career Born in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, son of Rolf Gardiner and Marabel Hodgkin, Gard ...

(born 1943), English conductor *

John Reynolds Gardiner John Reynolds Gardiner (December 6, 1944 – March 4, 2006) was a writer best known for writing the book Stone Fox. Personal life Born in Los Angeles, California, he was a rebellious boy whose teachers believed he would never get anywhere in l ...

, American novelist *

John Stanley Gardiner John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946) was a British zoologist. Biography Stanley, as he was known, was the younger son of John Jephson Gardiner and Sarah McTier. He was born in Jordanstown (Belfast) in 1872 – two years after his brother Arthur. ...

(1872–1946), British zoologist *

John Sylvester John Gardiner John Sylvester John Gardiner (1765–1830), aka John S. J. Gardiner, was an American Episcopal priest. He was Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts, president of Boston's Anthology Club, and active in the Boston Athenæum. Early lif ...

(1765–1830), Welsh-born American clergyman *

John Gardiner (businessman) John Gardiner (born June 1936) is a British businessman, chairman of Tesco Tesco plc () is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England. In 2011 it was the third-largest re ...

(born 1936), British businessman. *

Joseph Gardiner (Western Australian politician) Joseph Peter Gardiner (4 July 1886 – 23 January 1965) was the Labor Party member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Roebourne from 1911 to 1915. His sudden and still unexplained departure from Western Australia in 191 ...

(1886–1965), member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly * Joseph Gardiner (New South Wales politician) (1879–1941), member of the New South Wales Legislative Council * Joe Gardiner, English footballer * Les Gardiner (Scottish footballer) (born 1918) *

Lion Gardiner Lion Gardiner (1599–1663) was an English engineer and colonist who founded the first English settlement in New York, acquiring land on eastern Long Island. He had been working in the Netherlands and was hired to construct fortifications on the ...

(1599–1663), English settler in New York *

Luke Gardiner Luke Gardiner (c. 1690 – 25 September 1755) was an Irish property developer and politician. In the Irish House of Commons he represented Tralee from 1725 until 1727 and Thomastown from 1727 until his death in 1755. He was appointed to the I ...

(1690–1755), Irish politician *

Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy Privy Council of Ireland, PC (Ire) (7 February 1745 – 5 June 1798) was an Irish landowner and politician. Biography He was the son of Charles Gardiner by his wife Florinda, daughter of Robert Norman. His s ...

(1745–1798), Irish politician and property developer *

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (née Power; 1 September 1789 – 4 June 1849), was an Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess.''The Feminist Companion to Literature in English'', eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and ...

(1789–1849), Irish writer * Marshall G. Gardiner (1912–1999), American journalist and politician *

Michael Gardiner Michael Strickland Gardiner (born 5 July 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from Albany, Western Australia. Ga ...

, Australian rules footballer *

Muriel Gardiner Muriel Gardiner Buttinger (née Morris; November 23, 1901 – February 6, 1985) was an American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Early life and career Gardiner was born on November 23, 1901 in Chicago, the daughter of Edward Morris, president of ...

, American psychiatrist *

Pauline Gardiner Pauline Mona Gardiner (née Wayman, born 27 September 1947) is a former New Zealand Member of Parliament, first for New Zealand National Party and then for United New Zealand. She was married to soldier, writer and public servant Wira Gardiner ...

, New Zealand politician * Peter Gardiner, Swedish actor and dancer *

Reginald Gardiner William Reginald Gardiner (27 February 1903 – 7 July 1980) was an English actor on the stage, in films and on television. Early years Gardiner was born in Wimbledon, England, and he was a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.Katz, ...

(1903–1980), English actor * Richard Gardiner (disambiguation) *

Ricky Gardiner Ricky Gardiner (31 August 1948 – 13 May 2022) was a Scottish guitarist and composer. Biography Gardiner joined his first band, the Vostoks, at school in 1962. Next there were the Kingbees and the System, with whom he formed Beggars Oper ...

, Scottish musician * Robert Gardiner (disambiguation), several people *

Samuel Rawson Gardiner Samuel Rawson Gardiner (4 March 1829 – 24 February 1902) was an English historian, who specialized in 17th-century English history as a prominent foundational historian of the Puritan revolution and the English Civil War. Life The son of ...

(1829–1902), English historian *

Silvester Gardiner Dr. Silvester Gardiner (June 29, 1708 – August 8, 1786) was a physician, pharmaceutical merchant and land developer of Maine. He is known for founding the city of Gardiner. Early years He was born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the son of ...

(1707–1786), American physician and land developer * Simon Gardiner (born 1975), Prominent Scouser and world record neck size *

Stephen Gardiner Stephen Gardiner (27 July 1483 – 12 November 1555) was an English Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I and King Philip. Early life Gardiner was b ...

(c. 1493–1555), English Lord Chancellor and bishop *

Steven Gardiner Steven Gardiner (born 12 September 1995) is a Bahamian track and field sprinter competing in the 400 metres and 200 metres. He is the current Olympic and world champion in the 400 m, and also won the silver medal at the 2017 World Champio ...

(born 1995), Bahamian track and field sprinter * Susan Gardiner (born 1980), Canadian water polo player * Thomas A. Gardiner (1832–1881), New York politician * William Guthrie Gardiner, ship owner and philanthropist *

Wrey Gardiner Charles Wrey Gardiner (1901 – 13 March 1981) was an English writer and poet, editor and publisher, born in Plymouth. Gardiner was a noted and well-connected literary figure, particularly in London in the years around Second World War, though ...

(1901–1981), English writer, poet, editor and publisher

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